Frankenstorm Sandy has passed over the New York City area on her slow, destructive path north, leaving behind a trail of wreckageand mayhem from North Carolina up to at least Connecticut. The biggest mess, though, is in New York City: The streets and subway tunnels are filled with water, power lines and power stations have erupted [...]

Selling Your Body To Science – While You’re Still Living Getty Images
Writer and 30 Rock cast member John Lutz (he’s the one on the left) has done just that, and is writing a book about his experience.
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In the Land Before Color Photography… Everyone was super weird and creepy.
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Have A Laugh At Laughter’s Expense The [...]

I keep my wallet in my front pocket, and still, tragedy strikes. #fallingmattresses
— Jesse Scott Owen (@JesseScottOwen) September 19, 2012
Jesse Scott Owen was new to New York City, but the 18-year-old got a big city experience Tuesday when a mattress fell off the roof of a building and landed on him. Owen was walking along [...]

On November 16, 1940, an unattended wooden toolbox was discovered on a windowsill in the Consolidated Edison Company Building at 4 Irving Place in Manhattan. The headquarters of the utility giant is huge, taking up an entire block, and it was bustling that day. No one had seen who left the box behind, where they [...]

Christopher Moloney’s FILMography overlays movies and reality, like this scene from The Dark Knight Rises shot at Federal Hall in New York City. Moloney matches the perspective perfectly. His other movie stills include The French Connection, The Muppets Take Manhattan, The Quiet American and Tomb Raider.
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The
rich are different than you and I. For one, their kids are much better
dressed. Well, much more expensively dressed anyways. Meet the sartorial
one-percentlings:
Juliet Sandler dresses in the latest $650 dresses and [...]

Under J. Edgar Hoover, everybody who was anybody had an FBI file. Here are some interesting things we found while poking around their archives.
1. Albert Einstein
Our favorite scientist’s file is over 1800 pages long. Einstein’s German roots always made the Bureau nervous. It didn’t help that he was an outspoken pacifist and socialist (not to [...]

Authors like H.G. Wells, Isaac Asimov, and Robert Heinlein have long envisioned a future where the automobile gives way to massive, high-speed moving walkways. Some of them merely zoom commuters around cities, while others, like Heinlein’s “mechanized roads,” could take people from Cleveland all the way to Cincinnati.
The moving sidewalk is familiar to travelers in [...]

Last month, while Jason was flying home from Chicago, he asked readers to submit their most amazing facts related to air travel.
We’ve combed through the submissions, fact-checked our favorites, and picked 11 winners. The winners will be contacted via e-mail so they can receive the mental_floss T-shirts of their choice.
And the winners are…
Amy Gardner McNeal:
Seventy-five [...]